He was arraigned in Colonie Town Court and committed to Albany County Jail with cash bail set at $30,000.

On Sept. 26, Kaiser appeared in court again and waived further court action pending the outcome of a grand jury hearing.

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The Albany County Court clerk's office said Kaiser's case is not yet on any court calendars and there is no estimate of a hearing date.

The Albany County District Attorney's Office said that there generally is a 45-day waiting period before a grand jury indictment.

Police said an off-duty officer noticed Kaiser exhibiting odd behavior in a Hannaford grocery store on Wolf Road in Albany. The officer said Kaiser was placing his foot below the skirt a woman was wearing as she shopped.

When the officer confronted Kaiser, police said he ran out of the store and was apprehended in the parking lot.

The lace-up work shoe Kaiser was wearing had a hole cut in the top of the shoe where a small video camera was fitted, police said.

Kaiser, who retired as a lieutenant in the Oneida City Fire Department 2005 after serving about 20 years as a firefighter, has a previous conviction for video voyeurism.

He was arrested in July 2006 by the Oneida Police Department after family members discovered Kaiser, a landlord, watching a tenant on a television in his living room.

It was later found that he cameras to spy on tenants who lived in a two-family rental property he owned on Seneca Street in Oneida. Cameras peered through small holes in the walls allowing Kaiser to watch his victims. Tax rolls show that Kaiser no longer owns the property.

In December of 2006 he was found guilty of four counts of unlawful surveillance, and was later sentenced to two to six years in prison. He was released from prison in July of 2010 after serving a little more than three years.

At the time of his arrest in Colonie on Sept. 23, Kaiser told police he was in the area working for Myers & Co., a commercial fire extinguisher inspection company in Oneida.

The business was opened in 1994 and is owned by Oneida City Fire Chief Gregg Myers.

On Wednesday, Myers' wife, Leslie, who runs the day-to-day operations, said it's absolutely not true that Kaiser was conducting company work in Colonie.

"We have no idea what he was doing in the area," she said, adding that Kaiser was an occasional, part-time employee. She said neither she nor her husband had seen him in more than a week.

After giving it much thought, she said they hired Kaiser to give him a second chance after his prison sentence. She said they felt that Kaiser had "served his debt to society."

"We never had any indication he was any kind of threat," Myers said.

She said they feel Kaiser betrayed their trust.

According to court papers, in 2007, two civil suits were filed in district court by Kaiser's tenants.

One suit was vacated because it sought to garnish his a pension. Kaiser's pension, through the New York State Police and Fireman Retirement System, is immune from judgment garnishments.

The second suit awarded five plaintiffs, the two tenants who occupied the rental property as well as their three frequent guests, $100,000 each.